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Re:Why Do People Neglect Maintenance? by gerbilly on Friday October 11, 2019 @12:10PM (#21225709)
> frequently think it's "impossible" to make software that addresses and solves the issues of all groups.

I find this increasingly to be the case.

The fashion now is to do everything with MVPs and sprints.

The big hidden assumption with this style of development is that any problem can be solved using incremental 'local searches'¹ through the design space.

This is definitely not true, especially for co-optimization problems like you describe above².

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_climbing

2: "Solving the issues for all groups" appears like a meta co-optimization problem.

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